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TOM: Coast to coast and floorboards to shingles, this is The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show. I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete.
TOM: Pick up the phone, give us a call right now with your home improvement project. The number is 1-888-MONEY-PIT, 888-666-3974.
Now, we gave you a break last weekend but it is no longer Labor Day Weekend. That means you need to do some labor this weekend and fix up your house. Get it ready for the fall season, which is just a couple of weeks ahead now. You know, when it gets chilly and the leaves fall down and the gutters get clogged and your energy bills go up, oh, my God, let's fix all that this weekend. Pick up the phone and we will help. The number is 888-MONEY-PIT, 888-666-3974.
Coming up this hour, you probably have a staple gun around somewhere. But if you think a stapler is only for papers and craft projects, you could be very, very wrong. We're going to have tips on why a staple gun can be a toolbox staple for you and to help you with dozens of projects around the house.
LESLIE: And if one of your projects is turning your basement into a place that your family is going to actually want to spend time, you need to be careful when it comes to adding a bathroom to that below-grade space. We're going to tell you how installing plumbing in the basement is very different.
TOM: Yes. It's called "gravity" and it doesn't work with you down there.
LESLIE: Exactly.
TOM: And if you're looking for a fall project that can save big on those winter energy bills, we've got a great idea for you. It's a good time right now to think about replacing your front door with a fiberglass entry door. Not only are fiberglass doors very energy-efficient, they'll also make the front of your home look really great and can drive up the value of your house, as well. And now is a good time to do that.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm. That's right. Coming up, we're going to tell you which fiberglass door got a big thumbs-up for the Best Buy from Consumers Digest Magazine.
TOM: And also ahead this hour, we're going to give away a HydroRight Dual-Flush System for your toilet. It's worth about 20 bucks and it is a great way to save water and money all year long. So give us a call right now with your home improvement question, your do-it-yourself dilemma, your decorating dilemma. The number is 1-888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: Alright. Now we've got Barbara K. on the line, calling in from Minnesota, who's got truly a geographically unique question. Barbara K. accidentally wore her ice cleats on her boots into her home and did a number on the floor.
TOM: So Barbara, was there ice in the house that caused you to wear the cleats inside?
BARBARA: No. I did break my arm, though, in February – both bones – and my son give me his boot-cleat thing and …
TOM: Oh. So you weren't really used to having them on?
BARBARA: Yes, I – well, the bird food I keep in the porch. And I would come in the back door and go through the linoleum kitchen, the dining room hardwood floor, the living room hardwood floor and the porch hardwood floor. And these are 1900 wood floors: all different woods. And there must be billions, if not millions, of – not on the whole floor, of course, just the …
TOM: Oh, my God. So you turned around at some point in this journey and saw the holes that you now pierced into your floors.
BARBARA: Yep. Well, about a month-and-a-half later, I didn't notice them because it's always so dark here in the winter. And then one day, the sun did shine and it hit them at an angle and I thought, "What the heck is that?"
TOM: So were you wearing these cleats all winter long while you fed the birds?
BARBARA: No, no. No but I would go for a walk every day and then get my mail and come home and feed the birds last and …
TOM: OK. Yeah and so you just kept those cleats on until you got done with all your routine and now you're faced with hole-y floors.
BARBARA: Yeah. With a broken arm, they were hard to get on and off with one arm, so I left them on and I didn't – I've never had them before.
TOM: Oh, OK.
BARBARA: I was stupid. I was in a lot of pain for about two months, anyway, so I wasn't thinking straight.
TOM: Yeah. Your judgment was clouded by pain medication, I'm sure.
BARBARA: Oh, no. No, no. I'm allergic to everything, so that wasn't a problem.
TOM: OK. So let's tackle these one floor surface at a time.
BARBARA: Yeah.
TOM: The hardwood floor – if it's solid hardwood floor and they're not too terribly deep, you could lightly sand the surface and refinish it. If they are kind of deep, then you'd have to have it professionally sanded so we can get down below those dents.
Linoleum, no, I don't have any solutions for you on there. There's no way to patch that, so you're going to have to live with that and eventually replace it. But the hardwood you may be able to sand out.
BARBARA: Yes and I did measure the cleats. And I don't know what they were new before walking on concrete for a couple of months but right now, those cleats are between 1/8-of-an-inch and a ¼-of-an-inch long. So that's how deep: just under a ¼-of-an-inch deep holes.
TOM: Yeah, that's pretty serious damage and I'm pretty sure it's not covered by homeowners insurance, either.
BARBARA: I know. But you think sanding, huh? I mean there's no – there's nothing I can pour on it or …?
TOM: No, no, no, no, no, no, no.
LESLIE: Well and if you do, any sort of filler that you put in, because it's a floor, it's just going to pop out when you vacuum, traffic, movement. It's just not going to ever stay.
TOM: Just consider it a little Wisconsin character very, very special to your area and a great story to tell people. And by the way, may I suggest that you wear slippers next time?
BARBARA: Yeah, well, then I will break another arm.
TOM: Alright. Well, good luck with that project, Barbara. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: Alright. Now we've got Mitch in Texas on the line who's dealing with a popcorn ceiling and like most people who have one, wants to get rid of it. Welcome, Mitch.
MITCH: Thank you very much.
LESLIE: So tell us what's going on. Where is this popcorn ceiling? Is it truly popcorn? Are you sure it's not a stucco texture?
MITCH: No, it's a true popcorn ceiling. What's going on is in our bedroom, we're wanting to get rid of the popcorn ceiling and make it just a flat ceiling. But the thing is, underneath the popcorn are circle paint patterns – you know how when they do ceilings, sometimes they'll take that brush and create circles all throughout the …?
TOM: Oh, you've got the double-whammy of textures: you've got popcorn and you've got textured spackle.
MITCH: Correct.
MITCH: And so I'm wanting to know the best way, if there's a product or something to help me get that off without having to replace the sheetrock or cover it up.
TOM: Man, I tell you, that's very difficult because the texture is probably in the spackle itself. And if they've done it the way I think they've done it, you have to sand that stuff off.
I wouldn't do it. What I would do is I would get 3/8-inch drywall and cover that, man, one 4×8 section at a time. I know it sounds like a lot of work but in the end result, it's the quickest and – quickest way to cover it up with the best possible result because you'll have flat, smooth, perfect ceilings. Even if you were to go through the hours and hours it would take you to get rid of the popcorn and the textured spackle underneath and then painted that, it's always going to look uneven and a bit rough.
TOM: So I really think the best way to do it is to just to put another layer of drywall. You don't need to use ½-inch; you can use 3/8 or even ¼ on top of that. Spackle it, prime it, paint it and be done with it.
MITCH: Now is there any special tool or thing to make the popcorn stuff come off that much easier or does it pretty much come off?
TOM: No. You can – well, if you spray it with a little bit of water and then just use a spackle knife, you can get the chunky stuff off that way.
LESLIE: Like a wide spackle knife.
MITCH: Alright. Well, thank you very much.
TOM: You're welcome. Good luck with that project. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: You are tuned to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. Well, with the kids back at school, is your house a little quiet this weekend? Maybe you're looking for some projects to tackle around your money pit. If you are and you need a hand, we're here to help you with all of those to-do lists 24 hours a day, 7 days a week at 1-888-MONEY-PIT.
Up next, we're going to have tips on how you can transform the exterior of your home, save money and drive up the value, all with one simple project. That's coming up, after this.
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TOM: Making good homes better, welcome back to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete. And we want you to pick up the phone and give us a call at 888-MONEY-PIT, because we are going to give you a hand with your home improvement projects that you might be working on this weekend or planning to tackle next weekend. But we're also going to give you a prize for one lucky caller who gets on the air with us this hour.
And we've got up for grabs a really great prize that's going to actually save you water and money at your money pit. We are giving away a HydroRight Dual-Flush System.
Now, what this does, this is basically a flush valve that's going to convert your standard toilet into a water-saving, dual-flush system with no tank removal necessary. You can actually do this project yourself. So, when you need, you can get a quick flush just for liquids and paper or you can get a full flush for other business.
So it really is a great prize. It's going to save you a ton of money and it truly is one of those projects when you tackle it yourself, you'll be like, "Wow, I did that." And you'll be so green and so forward-thinking, so pick up the phone and give us a call at 888-MONEY-PIT for your chance to win.
You know, we are very fortunate, Leslie, to be able to work with some of the best companies in the world as sponsors of this program. And that's why we want to take this opportunity to send out a huge congrats to our friends at Therma-Tru Doors, who are the winners of the Consumer Digest Magazine designation as a Best Buy in fiberglass entry doors. That's pretty powerful.
When you have a magazine like Consumers Digest designate you as a Best Buy, that means that you're really delivering a lot of value and a lot of quality. And they qualified for all five collections of the Therma-Tru Classic-Craft fiberglass entry door: the American style, the Mahogany, the Rustic, Oak and Canvas. They were all included in the Best Buy designation, so well done, Therma-Tru.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm. And you know what? This is really exciting because this is the first time that Consumers Digest has ever even focused on reviewing fiberglass entry doors as its own category. In fact …
TOM: Oh, is that right? That's interesting.
LESLIE: Yeah. I mean this is the first time that they've thought about it.
TOM: That shows how entrenched fiberglass doors are in the market right now.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm. And they really are a great choice that more and more people are making on a daily basis. In fact, the magazine even wrote: "No other door that's in this price range replicates the look of a wood door better than the Classic-Craft series does."
And it's true. The Therma-Tru Classic-Craft series, their fiberglass doors, they're not only beautiful – and they really, really are beautiful; they look exactly like wood – but they're energy-efficient, they're strong and they're secure. And really, if you put a fiberglass door next to a wood door, I'd bet you you'd pick the wrong one when you would think which one's the fiberglass door. So check out their website.
TOM: Leave them there in the sunlight for about a year; it'd be pretty obvious.
LESLIE: You'll know which.
TOM: Because the wood door is going to fall apart and crack.
If you want more information on Therma-Tru Doors, you can go to their website at ThermaTru.com – T-h-e-r-m-a-T-r-u.com.
LESLIE: Alright. Now we've got Jean in West Virginia who's got a question about cleaning windows. Tell us what's going on.
JEAN: Hi. First of all, I'd like to say that I love your show.
LESLIE: Thanks.
TOM: Thank you.
JEAN: I have a few Plexiglas windows in my home and there's a cloudiness to them. I've tried cleaning them with vinegar and water, with the straight vinegar, Windex, even soap and water trying to get the dirt off of it and nothing keeps – I can't use it. I haven't found anything where I can clean them and I was hoping you guys might have a solution.
LESLIE: Jean, unfortunately, you kind of said something that made me a little nervous about what's been going on with your windows. You used Windex on the Plexiglas and while Windex is great for glass or surfaces, with Plexiglas it causes a reaction on the surface of the Plexi which then causes a cloudiness that is not removable.
JEAN: Oh, so I did it to myself.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm.
TOM: Unfortunately.
LESLIE: There are special Plexi cleaners that you can pick up at home centers, supermarkets. They're not hard to find; they're made especially for Plexiglas and it's the – it's really – you can't go back, though.
JEAN: Oh, OK.
LESLIE: Like once you've done it, it's done.
JEAN: OK. And I can find that at Lowe's?
LESLIE: Oh, completely. Any home center, you'll find it. It'll be in the cleaning aisle and make sure it'll say "special Plexiglas cleaner." And it's made specifically for that, because otherwise it causes a chemical reaction.
JEAN: Oh, OK. I understand. Alright. Wonderful. Well, I do appreciate that.
TOM: You're very welcome, Jean. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
JEAN: Thank you.
LESLIE: Alright. Next up, we've got Andy from South Carolina on the line who's dealing with a storage and let's call it an organizing issue. What's going on, Andy?
ANDY: Well, it's not a boat in the basement but the stuff in an attic.
ANDY: And the question is – the stuff is mostly at the end of the house, directly above a two-car garage. The good news is the two-car garage is away from the street. And I would like to, in some way, be able to remove the stuff out of the attic. And I'm thinking that the louvered vent – it's at the peak of the roof, on that end of the house or something – that either I can hinge or I could take out completely and reinstall it or put a new one in.
TOM: Oh, you mean to get the stuff out, as an easy way out? Is that what you're thinking?
ANDY: To get the stuff out, because I've got lots of stuff.
TOM: I see.
ANDY: Most of it is way too big.
TOM: How big of a vent do you have there?
ANDY: It's a better part of 5 feet tall and about close to …
TOM: Oh, it's a big vent. OK. Well, then I think that's probably a reasonable solution that's a pretty quick way to get all the stuff out of the attic. And then next time, don't fill it up so much.
ANDY: Well, it was filled up a piece at a time through the years.
TOM: Yeah, I know. Not all at once, right? Yeah.
ANDY: It's kind of like that boat in the basement thing but it's stuff in the attic. And my wife said I would not bring it down through the house.
TOM: Yeah. Well, I think it's a reasonable solution if you have a vent that is that big. If it's 5 feet wide, you've already got the structural hole in the attic. And if you can take it apart and get all that stuff out, put it back together, it might not be that big of a deal.
Once you get that out and the space is now empty, it's a good opportunity for you to also reinsulate in that area. Does it have a floor on it?
ANDY: It does.
TOM: Alright. So, you might want to think about checking under those floor boards, seeing what kind of insulation you have. If it's filled up, you could actually add some additional insulation on top of the floor. Of course, you wouldn't be able to re-store things there because what you really want in your part of the country is about 16 to 18 inches of insulation. That will really keep those air-conditioning bills down, as well as the heating bills if it gets chilly.
ANDY: Well, I recently had the house reroofed and I put in a nice, new, high-end ridge vent when we did all of that.
TOM: Well, that was smart.
ANDY: And we also went back with these power turbines.
TOM: Well, that wasn't smart.
ANDY: Power turbines weren't smart?
TOM: No. If you put a ridge vent in and you matched those with soffit vents, that's really all you need. You don't need an attic fan, you don't need these spinning vents. They're not as effective as continuous ridge and soffit vents.
So, get the stuff out of the attic, improve the insulation, improve the ventilation and you will be good to go.
ANDY: Sounds good.
TOM: Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: Jim in Minnesota is on the line and has got a question about roofing. How can we help you with your project?
JIM: Yeah. I have a 28×40 building with an average roof pitch and the shingles need replacing.
JIM: Should I put tin on the roof boards? Or I hear that we should put boards that run horizontally under roof boards, then nail the tin on top of the – these horizontal boards.
TOM: Alright. So first of all, Jim, you have asphalt shingles on there right now?
JIM: Yes.
TOM: Are you planning on removing those shingles?
JIM: Absolutely.
TOM: Alright, good. So once you remove them, then I think you can put the tin right on top of the sheathing. I'm assuming you have sheathing there. If you don't have sheathing, then you would have to have stripped sheathing put on: those strips that you're talking about, those furring strips. Yeah, you would have to add those. But if you have standard sheathing, I think you can put the metal roof right on top of that.
And it's a good project to do. You know, those metal roofs really do last indefinitely and the coatings that are on the metal roofs today are reflective of the heat in the summer, so it keeps the buildings cold, cooler, as well. So, good project.
Does that help you out?
JIM: Yes.
TOM: Alright. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
This is The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show. Coming up, are you thinking about installing a bathroom in your basement? Well, the biggest challenge can be summed up in a single word: gravity. We're going to tell you how to make that plumbing system flow uphill, after this.
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TOM: Making good homes better, welcome back to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete.
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LESLIE: Now we've got Robert in Tennessee on the line who thinks the foundation in their home is not very firm. How do you know? What have you been doing, poking at it? What's going on, Robert?
ROBERT: Hey. No, it's just any time the boys or the dogs run through the house, there's a couple of areas where vases and things start shaking on top of furniture. And we just want to know the best way to shore it up.
TOM: Oh, so you've got some bouncy floors.
ROBERT: Yes, sir.
TOM: Yeah. Well, let's see. A 1919 house is going to have beams that are a little bit smaller than what we would put in today and probably not much in the way of bridging. So you can put in some mid-span support to that. You could add another girder down the middle of the floor joists to kind of half the distance that they're traveling.
Now, this girder doesn't have to have the traditional foundation associated with it. Some stiff lally columns would do the trick here, because really what you're doing is just trying to take the flex out of the floor joists. But that kind of bounce is not really that unusual in an older house and I wouldn't be too terribly concerned about it. But if it's bothering you, you could put in a mid-span girder to take the bounce out. Does that make sense?
ROBERT: It does. I have put a couple of them in. I just find that I wonder when the blocks will ever settle that they're under, because it seems like every other year I have to go back under there and jack them back up some more.
TOM: Tighten them up? OK. So I mean if that's the case, then you might want to go through the trouble of digging yourself out of footing. It doesn't have to be 3 foot deep but if you dig out the floor to the point where you've got maybe a 2-foot square hole, fill it up with concrete and place the lally column on top of that and make sure that's under the girder, then I think it'll be a longer-term repair for you.
ROBERT: OK. Sounds good.
TOM: You can mix it up yourself just with a couple of bags of QUIKRETE or something like that.
LESLIE: And Robert, you can always enforce the speed limit in the house with the kids.
ROBERT: Well, that's a never-ending problem there.
TOM: I hear you, Robert. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
ROBERT: Thank you, Tom and Leslie.
LESLIE: Well, today, more and more extended families are coming together under one roof, whether it's for an economic reason or a health issue. And if that's the case in your house, you might find yourself looking for more space or even an extra bathroom.
TOM: And one of the best places to expand is actually down under. And no, we're not talking about moving to Australia; we're talking about your basement.
Basements make really terrific living areas if they're properly finished and that includes installing a below-grade bathroom. To find out how to do just that, we turn to a guy who knows exactly how to make a plumbing system defy gravity: our friend, Richard Trethewey, from TV's This Old House.
Hi, Richard.
RICHARD: Hey, guys.
TOM: And most people think that putting in a bathroom below-grade requires a lot of work and expense but that's not necessarily always true, correct?
RICHARD: Well, it always was, you know? You had – because you didn't have gravity to work with, you always had to open up the basement floor and put a thing called a sewage ejector: this big pit, like a sump pit, that everything came into. And that was pretty extensive.
And then we saw this product some years ago that allows you to actually put a basement bathroom in without having to dig up the floor and it's pretty, pretty ingenious.
TOM: OK. And what's that called?
RICHARD: Well, it's a product called Saniflo and it has a variety of iterations. One is just a straightforward unit that's a toilet that sits on the floor and it has a macerator in it so that it'll grind up and pump out the waste through a relatively small pipe – a little ¾ pipe – and that will go into the OP and then into the drain system.
And then they also have one that can allow you to have a tub or shower drain off the side of it and also allows you to bring a lavatory, so that it – but it makes most of its work be done above the finish or above the basement grade of the floor.
LESLIE: Now, is there any limitation to – as far as the distance you might need to actually move the waste to get into the main sewage? Like can you only keep it under a certain distance?
RICHARD: No. There's no practical limit in residential. I mean you could – I don't think there's a house that we couldn't get this thing to pump it out.
TOM: Now, because it's sitting on the floor, do you have to build a throne to put your throne there?
RICHARD: Well, no. It comes off the back. It's designed that way, so you do see this little, white tank off the back of the toilet.
RICHARD: And then it has a place – you may have to build up your shower height. So if you have a really low basement, if you're trying to do a shower stall it might get you into a little bit of trouble.
TOM: So the toilet is different than – the toilet doesn't drain below it. It drains out the back?
RICHARD: No, it's expressly made for this device and it's a matched unit, so it's not – you're not putting a conventional toilet there.
TOM: Oh, OK.
RICHARD: But it's an ingenious – it's really ingenious because there are so many people that just would love to have a basement bathroom and historically, it was just prohibitive to get this thing done.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm. Well, I know. In so many communities, there are a lot of limitations to what you can do as far as a bathroom in a basement area. So really, I think the first step is going to your town's building department and find out what the rules are.
RICHARD: Yep.
LESLIE: Because since I've started working as a decorator, I can't tell you how many families who've just bought a house and there's a bathroom in the basement. And they're going to go do some decorative work and they go to file the permits and the town's like, "Whoa. That bathroom's not legal. You've got to get rid of it."
RICHARD: I always prefer to be up-front with the local establishment and sort of – when I had to do a – build a house, I went right to the town hall and said, "Tell me how to do it the right way." And it's amazing how they become – they go from potentially your adversary to your advocate.
TOM: Good advice. Richard Trethewey from TV's This Old House, thanks so much for stopping by The Money Pit.
And to see a great video of how to install a basement toilet, including that Saniflo system that Richard mentioned, you can visit ThisOldHouse.com.
LESLIE: And remember, you can watch Richard and the entire This Old House team on This Old House and Ask This Old House on your local PBS station.
TOM: And This Old House is brought to you by Lumber Liquidators. Lumber Liquidators, hardwood floors for less.
Still ahead, when you think about staples, do you think about the flimsy things you use to attach to your school papers? Well, forget about that. We're going to tell you why a staple gun should be moved up to the top of your tool box because of all the projects it can complete, after this.
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TOM: Making good homes better, welcome back to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show. I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete.
TOM: Hey, don't forget we are giving away a great prize to help you save money and water this hour. One caller who makes it on the air with us is going to win the HydroRight Converter. It changes any standard toilet into a dual-flush system. It's got a quick flush for liquids and a full flush when you need it and you know when you need it.
This was invented by a plumber. It's really easy to install, actually. No tools required. Worth about 20 bucks. Going to go out to one caller that reaches us with their home improvement question at 1-888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: Alright. Pick up the phone and give us a call. We'd love to give you a hand with what you are working on.
And given the nature of the job that Tom and I have, we get asked a lot of questions about home improvement, what types of tools you should have. And I'm always asked what is my favorite tool, what is my must go-to tool. And for years, I've got to tell you, it's always been a staple gun.
Now, if you've got one, then you know – and maybe you don't know but there are actually lots and lots of projects that you can accomplish with a staple gun. If you do not have one, go out and get one. Because today's staple guns, they're ergonomically designed and they're easier to use than a hammer and a nail and there's no thumb-hitting involved at all, I promise.
And it really gives you a fasten that's just as tough, if not tougher. And because of the design, it's very easy on your hands. In fact, ever since my high school days when I was gathering my first working tool kit for my design projects and my theater work, there has always been a staple gun in that kit. And I've always turned to the Arrow Fastener Company for the most-quality staple gun on the market.
Now, Arrow has been in the business of making professional-quality fastening products since 1929. And they are the maker of the world's best-selling staple gun, the T50.
TOM: That's right. Now, the project ideas for a staple gun are really endless. You can use it to add insulation to get ready for the colder weather this time of year. And with the holidays approaching, simple projects can really make a big transformation to your home: everything from updating the fabric on older dining room chairs to even adding decorative trim and molding to walls and even furniture. You know, the ideas are totally limitless and once you have a staple gun in your tool box, you're going to wonder what you ever did without it.
Now, if you've got an older staple gun, you might want to think about updating it to a newer model. They are easier to hold and to use. And if you want to see the absolute best staple guns on the market today, you've got to check out ArrowFastener.com. Arrow makes the T50, which has been the best-selling staple gun in the world for five decades and you can see it in action at ArrowFastener.com.
888-666-3974. Give us a call right now with your next home improvement project.
LESLIE: Jackie in Kansas, you've got The Money Pit. What can we do for you today?
JACKIE: Yes. We're remodeling our – a bedroom in our basement and we have a door – we had a door in there that – to the closet; it's a walk-in closet that opened into the room. And I would have – I would like to replace it with one of those pocket drawers that – pocket doors that pull across so it won't take out any of the room in the …
TOM: Yeah, you're talking about the kind that slides in so it becomes hidden? It slides into the wall? Or are you talking about another …?
JACKIE: Yeah.
TOM: Alright. Not the kind that's more like an accordion.
JACKIE: No, I want the kind that goes into the wall.
JACKIE: And our contractor told us that that's a bearing wall and we can't do that.
TOM: Alright. Well, look, even if it's a bearing wall, you can frame for it but here's what you have to do. If your door is 2-feet wide – the finished width is, say, 24 inches – the size of the opening that you need for this is double that.
LESLIE: It has to be like double it, right?
TOM: It's even more than that; it's more like 50, 52 inches. So you frame an opening for, say, a 52-inch-wide opening. You put the pocket door in and the hardware for it and you leave the exposed part and then it slides into the wall and that part gets covered with drywall. That's why the header has to be twice as big.
It's not – in a normal door, if it's a 2-foot door, it's going to be a 26, 28-inch header. But with a pocket door, it has to be twice as big. So that may be why he's trying to talk you out of it. I would further clarify that with him because you can put a header. I mean if you can have a 2-foot door, you can have a 4-foot door; it's just a slightly different header size.
LESLIE: Yeah but there's – a pocket door goes in the wall. There's something that they call – I think it's like a barn-style door where you put this mechanism on the exterior of the wall, so you would see it in the room. And it can be kind of modern-looking or it could be kind of funky- and country-looking and the door hangs on this track and will slide over the wall.
TOM: It slides over the wall. Right.
LESLIE: And you can get a fantastic-looking door and a really great-looking track where it could be rustic and country and then a great, salvaged-wood-type door. So if it's a look thing that you like, it can be functional and then you don't have to worry about the load-bearing wall at all.
JACKIE: Oh, that sounds good. I can match it with track lighting.
TOM: Sure.
LESLIE: Yeah, totally.
JACKIE: Yeah, that's – I like that. In fact, I think I even like that better than the pocket door.
TOM: Alright. So there we go; we gave you a new idea. Jackie, thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: Alright. Now we've got Sue in New York on the line who's got a problem with cleaning laminate flooring. How can we help you?
SUE: How do you – what's the best way to clean a laminate floor?
TOM: Damp-mopping it or with a very light cleaning chemical.
SUE: Like what?
LESLIE: Well, I would even say just vinegar and water.
SUE: Vinegar and water?
TOM: Yep.
SUE: OK. Because plain water just doesn't do it when you've got two big dogs.
LESLIE: No, it doesn't.
TOM: No, I could see that.
SUE: But vinegar will work?
TOM: Yep, it sure does.
LESLIE: Mm-hmm. Vinegar and water will work. Also, depending on the manufacturer of your flooring that you have in the house – like I know Armstrong has their own brand of laminate-floor cleaner, which is essentially a mix of things that are appropriate to that type of surface, that won't cause chemical reactions in our – actually a soap base in there that gives you a little bit of extra cleaning oomph that you might need for the dogs.
LESLIE: So look at the brand; search them up online, whomever you've got. And I bet they've got one that you can get at a home center.
SUE: Alright. Thank you.
TOM: You're very welcome. Thanks so much for calling us at 888-MONEY-PIT.
LESLIE: You are tuned to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. Still ahead, stucco, it can have a beautiful finish and really look great until it cracks and then it doesn't.
TOM: Not so much.
LESLIE: So we are going to tell you how to restore stucco that's not weathering well, when The Money Pit continues.
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TOM: Making good homes better, welcome back to The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete.
TOM: Hey, do you have a question on a DIY project? If you can't reach us at 888-MONEY-PIT, you can always log on to MoneyPit.com and tell us what's going on. You can even send pictures of your projects and just wait for a bit of expert advice from us or from any of the other thousands of members of The Money Pit community. It's all online and it's all free at MoneyPit.com.
LESLIE: Alright. And while you're there posting your question, get you a quick answer on Money Pit live right now. We've got one here from Florida and this person wrote: "I have a fairly new home. It's a concrete-block house with stucco on the outside. The stucco is cracking all over the place. I want to repaint within a year but I'm unsure as to how to remove the old paint, fix the cracking and prep the stucco. Is it OK to use a pressure washer on the stucco? Should I use a certain kind of paint? Any advice would be extremely helpful."
TOM: Well, my first concern is to make sure that the stucco is structurally sound. You say it's cracking; there's kind of two kinds of stucco cracking. You either get the cracking or it gets really loose and chunky and sort of falling off the house. You can get the other type of cracking where it's sort of like shrinkage cracking.
And if it's loose and chunky and falling off the house, then you have a structural problem with your stucco and it has to be pulled down and replaced. If it's just shrinkage cracking, you can remove the paint using traditional methods: paint strippers, that kind of stuff. I would not use a real aggressive pressure washer because you're going to put a lot of water into it. Plus, pressure washers that have – that are set strong enough to remove paint are going to score that stucco; you'll leave, literally, lines in it.
Now, there is a type of paint called an elastomeric paint. There are epoxy-based elastomerics that are a little more stretchy. And these types of paints can be applied by a professional painter and they will have a lot of give to them. So if the stucco expands and contracts a bit, they will kind of ride with that and not let the cracks go through. But it is very important to do a very good prep job and we've got an article on the step-by-step called, I think, "How to Paint Stucco." And it's right online at MoneyPit.com, so head on over there for all the details on how to solve this problem.
LESLIE: Alright. Next up, we've got a post from Sally in Missouri who writes: "My floor joists are 2x10s, 16 inch on center. Before I drywall the basement ceiling, I would like to stiffen the floor joist to eliminate bounce by installing new pieces of 2×10 perpendicular to the existing joist. How far apart should I put the new pieces of 2×10? I'm trying to find the balance between having it work and overkill."
Now, is this known as "sistering," when you're sort of putting them right up to one another?
TOM: No. Sistering is when they're side by side. She said perpendicular; she's talking about blocking or bridging.
LESLIE: Gotcha. Bracing them across to one another.
TOM: Bracing them, right, across from each other. And basically, I would take the run of the 2x10s. So, let's say they're 12 inch – 12 feet, I'm sorry – from pressure point to pressure point or resting point to resting point, go right in the middle and put the blocking right down the middle of those floor joists, Sally.
Now, a little trick of the trade is you can use solid 2x10s and you can offset them by an inch-and-a-half. Why would you do that? Because this way, you can end-nail and not have to kind of get those nails in on a crazy angle. If you offset them by an inch-and-a-half, you can just end-nail everything. Be very careful around the wires, the pipes; don't cut any of that stuff out. And that will make a big difference on how stiff that floor feels, how much bounce it has. It'll really take that flex right out of it.
LESLIE: Now, if that's not enough, go a quarter of the way or you're good?
TOM: No, I think that going halfway is fine. The thing is, you have to do the whole thing from end to end; you can't just do a piece of it or it won't work.
LESLIE: Alright. Enjoy that project. Love working overhead; getting in your arm exercise for the day.
TOM: This is The Money Pit Home Improvement Radio Show on air and online at MoneyPit.com. Thank you so much for spending this hour with us. Hope you got some useful home improvement tips, some ideas, some inspiration to avoid some perspiration on your next home improvement project.
I'm Tom Kraeutler.
LESLIE: And I'm Leslie Segrete.
TOM: Remember, you can do it yourself …
LESLIE: But you don't have to do it alone.
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The Flood Protection Elevation (FPE) is the elevation to which any structures within the floodplain are required to be protected. In compliance with the MWRD WMO, the Flood Protection Elevation is two feet above the BFE. Within the Village of Winnetka, the FPE for the Skokie River is 627.3 NAVD 1988.
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The 100-year floodplain, also known as the Special Flood Hazard Area (SFHA), is an area of land that has been determined by the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) as having a 1% chance of flooding in any given year. The floodplain is composed of a flood way and a flood fringe. The flood way is typically determined to be the channel of a river or stream and the overbank areas adjacent to the channel. The flood fringe is the area to either side of the flood way that is subject to flooding but conveys little or no flow. In Winnetka, there are two sources of floodplain: the Skokie River and Lake Michigan.
The Village of Winnetka's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance is Chapter 15.68 in the Municipal Code. In addition, the Metropolitan Water Reclamation District (MWRD) Watershed Management Ordinance (WMO) contains floodplain regulations that all municipalities within Cook County are required comply.
The Base Flood Elevation (BFE) is the elevation below which areas are at risk of flooding for the 100-year flood event. The current BFE for the 100-year flood event for the Skokie River is 625.3 NAVD 1988, which is generally consistent throughout the limits of Winnetka (between Hill Road and the northern Village Limits), but does vary south of Hill Road. The BFE and Flood Zone Designation for Lake Michigan have recently undergone revisions. Based upon the results of the Great Lakes Coastal Flood Study, FEMA has revised the BFE for Lake Michigan to a variable BFE ranging from 587 to 594 NAVD 1988, depending upon where the property is situated along the lake front in Winnetka. The Flood Zone Designation will also change from Zone AE to Zone VE, which is a coastal flood zone that takes into account wave action.
Any grade that is equal to or below this elevation is considered in the floodplain, when tributary to that floodplain. This elevation is referenced from the North American Vertical Datum (NAVD) of 1988.
If any grade adjacent to the foundation of the house is at or below the BFE, the entire house is determined to be in the floodplain and must comply with the Village's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance.
In addition, the MWRD's WMO stipulates that if a home is within 100' of the mapped BFE, any permit applicant who is wanting to construct a new home or make substantial improvements to an existing home must prove, by means of a topographic survey, that all grades adjacent to the home are above the BFE (by at least 0.1 feet) to be considered outside of the floodplain.
FEMA completed two re-mappings of Winnetka's western floodplains, one in November 2000 and one in August 2008, and one remapping of the lake Michigan coastline in September 2021. Due to increased rainfall intensities and various other topographic changes, the BFE rose approximately 9", as part of the 2000 remapping. In addition, the 2008 remapping and modernization more accurately reflects the floodplain limits north of Willow Road. The 2021 remapping of Lake Michigan takes into effect wave action and wave velocities.
Anyone in Winnetka can purchase flood insurance, even if the property (a building and/or its contents) is not located within the floodplain. However, if your property is located within the 100-year floodplain, and you have a federally backed loan or mortgage on the property, you are required by law to purchase flood insurance.
Yes, new construction is permitted in the floodplain in accordance with the Village of Winnetka's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance, Sections 15.68.050.G and 15.68.080.
Construction of a new home or structure with a basement may be permitted in the floodplain if a Letter of Map Revision – Fill (LOMR-F) is first obtained from FEMA. The LOMR-F can be obtained if engineered fill has been placed and compacted on the site to create a clay building pad for the home. All work must be done in accordance with the Village's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance. A LOMR-F, removes that portion of the property that was filled from the floodplain, thereby allowing a home to be constructed with an engineered basement. Otherwise, if site constraints do not allow for a LOMR-F, a home with a floodable crawlspace (no basement) may be constructed. The details of the design requirements are outlined in Section 15.68.050.G and 15.68.080 of the Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance.
Compensatory storage must be provided to offset any fill that is placed in the floodplain, under any circumstance. Compensatory storage must equal a minimum of 1.1 x Fill volume.
The MWRD's WMO requires that new home construction and/or substantial improvements to existing homes need to prove, by means of a certified topographic survey, prepared by either an Illinois Registered Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer, that the existing/new home and/or improvements are above the BFE by at least 0.10 feet.
Regardless, if you are considering constructing a new home that is within 100' of the BFE, the following design criteria must be met:
These requirements include:
There are two main criteria:
First, there is the Minimum Average Lot Grade Requirement:
Per the Village's flood hazard protection ordinance, the Average Lot Grade must be greater than the Minimum Average Lot Grade. That means that if you took the average lot grade, which is the average of the existing elevations taken at the intersection of the setback lines, it must be a greater value than the Minimum Average Lot Grade. The Minimum Average Lot Grade Equations is as follows:
Minimum Average Lot Grade: (627.3-2) - [(total required side yard permitted by Zoning – 12') x 0.0833] It is recommended that the prospective builder consult with a Professional Civil Engineer to investigate the logistics of constructing a new home with a basement on a lot.
Second, there are clay pad construction restrictions which may directly affect the size of the home, and are as follows:
There are additional criteria that must be met, but they are more material related.
Yes, as long as the Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance criteria are met. Improvements to an existing structure can be classified as either a Non-Substantial Improvement or a Substantial Improvement. A Substantial Improvement to an existing structure will require that the entire structure be brought into compliance with the Village's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance, whereby the lowest level of the structure and all attendant utilities must be elevated to the Flood Protection Elevation (FPE), which is 2' above the Base Flood Elevation (BFE). These requirements are summarized, as follows:
For any improvements to the home (including an attached garage), to be considered a Non-Substantial Improvement, the total cost of the improvements must be less than 50% of the current market value of the structure, excluding the land, and must be calculated cumulatively over the remaining life of the structure, beginning with any permit issued on or after May 2014.
If additions to an existing structure increases the building's footprint by more than 20%, the addition must be elevated to the FPE. This increase in footprint is cumulated in aggregate, beginning with any permit issued on or after May 2019.
To determine the current market value, you can either use the Cook County's Assessor's information, or get a certified appraisal, using the depreciated value of the structure. The Village cannot take the replacement value of the structure, as it does not accurately reflect the market value.
Cook County's Assessor's website can be found here. You can search by address or property PIN. To obtain the adjusted assessed value for the structure, take the assessed value for the structure and multiply by 10. Then, to determine the substantial improvement value threshold, divide that number by 2.
Once the 50% cost of improvement threshold has been met or exceeded, it is considered a substantial improvement, and as noted above, the entire home and attendant utilities need to be elevated such that the lowest floor is at or above the Flood Protection Elevation (BFE + 2'). This would most likely mean that you would need to fill in the basement and potentially jack up the rest of the home. As part of the permitting submittal, copies of the executed contracts that outline the entire scope of work, and any subcontracts that may be necessary, must be submitted for review.
Compensatory storage is an artificially excavated, storage volume within the 100-year floodplain that is required to offset the loss of natural storage capacity caused by the placement of fill, structures, or other materials above the existing natural grade. Compensatory storage must meet the following requirements (For the full description of the requirements, please see the Section 15.68 of the Village's Flood Hazard Protection Ordinance and the MWRD WMO, Article 6):
Call Obaid Khalid at 847-716-3530: as the Flood Plain Manager in the Village of Winnetka, he will be able to read the Flood Insurance Rate Maps and give an approximation of whether your property is within a flood zone. However, in order to make an exact determination, a topographic survey would need to be obtained by either an Illinois Licensed Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer.
Also, the Flood Insurance Rate Maps (FIRMs) can be found in the FEMA map center. However, in order to make an exact determination, a topographic survey or elevation certificate would need to be obtained by either an Illinois Licensed Land Surveyor or Professional Engineer.

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In 1988, Snohomish County established a "Conservation Futures Program" to preserve open space, as well as farm land, agricultural land, and timber land. The program is funded through a levy on properties throughout the County.
In June of 2018, the Recreation and Parks Department submitted an application to the Snohomish County Conservation Futures Grant Program. On August 1, 2018, the Snohomish County Council approved a motion which included a $191,500 allocation to the City of Mountlake Terrace. The proposed acquisition is for 1.78 acres of property adjacent to Terrace Creek Park, or the Dennis S. Tasoff property. The city and county executed an interlocal agreement in November, 2018, which outlined the uses and requirements of the funding, including the placement of a conservation easement on the land once the city acquired it. The property was acquired on June 30th, 2019 by the city.
The conservation easement limits future use of the property as a park or open space and requires the city to preserve, maintain and protect the property as such. The city will partner with the Snohomish County Public Utility District to construct a trail on an easement that they possess under the transmission lines along the north edge of the target parcel. This connection will serve as a rare east-west connection point across Terrace Creek Park from the Terrace Creek Park Trail to the Recreation Pavilion/Evergreen Playfield Complex. In addition, the Recreation and Parks Open Space Master Plan targets the acquisition of an additional 2.62 acres of Natural Areas based on current population levels and 3.0 acres for the 20-year planning horizon based on population growth. This 1.78 acres brings the city closer to the target number of 66.04 total acres in the Natural Areas category of park land.
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You should select a funeral home to make final arrangements. The funeral home representative and the Coroner's Office will coordinate with each other in order to facilitate these arrangements and to eliminate possible delays.
No, our office does not select funeral homes. Surviving family needs to select the mortuary that they desire to handle funeral arrangements.
No. In a majority of cases, visual identification is not required. Should it become necessary for you to come in or bring other records or x-rays, you will be contacted.
Yes, but keep in mind it may not be advisable. It will be at the discretion of the Coroner. It is recommended you wait to view at the Funeral Home.
The Coroner is required by law to investigate all deaths (1) that occur outside a physician's care; (2) that are sudden or unexpected; (3) that cannot be ascertained to be a natural death by documented medical history and circumstances. The involvement of the Coroner's Office does not mean that an autopsy will automatically be performed. The Coroner's Office may take jurisdiction over an apparently natural death if (1) the death was unexpected and no medical cause can be determined; (2) the decedent was not under the care of a physician, and/ or there is no prior documented medical history to explain the death; (3) the death might be a public health hazard; (4) there are extenuating and/ or suspicious circumstances associated with the death.
An autopsy is the examination of the body to determine the cause and manner of death. It is similar to a surgical procedure. Often, an autopsy can reveal an undiagnosed disease process or abnormality. It may also detect a genetic disorder that could be inherited by surviving family members. In an accidental death, the question of how a disease process contributed to the accident (if at all) must be answered. Often insurance companies will deny payment of benefits until the autopsy results are available. If the death is due to apparent natural causes and there is sufficient evidence of a pre-existing illness or medical condition, an autopsy may not be necessary. However, if there is any question that the death may be due to "other than natural causes" an autopsy will be performed. In an obviously traumatic death, the cause of death may appear obvious; however, there may be contributing, underlying factors. Again, the insurance companies may deny benefits until they receive the autopsy results.
Colorado law (CRS 30-10-606) provides the authority for the CORONER'S OFFICE to perform an autopsy as part of an investigation. We use the following guidelines:
1. If the autopsy is deemed unnecessary for the investigation, it will not be performed. By law, an autopsy cannot be performed by the Coroner's Office solely for "medical curiosity." If the family or Doctor would like a medical curiosity autopsy to be performed, it must be arranged by the family or by the doctor with the family's permission, and be done by the Pathologist of your choice. You should be aware that the financial responsibility falls upon the requesting party and an autopsy can be quite expensive.
2. If the Coroner's Office deems it necessary to perform an autopsy as part of the investigation, the law grants us the ability to take jurisdiction of the body to perform the autopsy. There is no charge for an autopsy conducted under these circumstances.
3. If you or your family should disagree with our decision to perform an autopsy in spite of the benefits and the questions it will answer, you must obtain a Court Order through your attorney to prevent the autopsy from taking place. All legal financial obligations incurred are your responsibility.
Yes. You may obtain a copy by calling the Office of the Grand County Coroner at (970) 724-0083 and requesting a copy. You will then be instructed to go to the website and fill out the Request for Autopsy Report and send to the office.
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Any personal possessions in the custody of the Coroner may be claimed by the legal next of kin. To avoid any inconvenience to you, call the Grand County Coroner's Office at (970) 724-0083 before coming into the office. We will advise you if any documents will be needed and of any other requirements.
Clothing is not usually considered property. Unless there is a need to hold clothing as evidence, it is released to the mortuary receiving the deceased. Clothing that presents a health hazard may be disposed of for the safety of all persons involved.
If the Coroner's Office is investigating the case and an autopsy is performed, we will issue the Death Certificate. It is given to the funeral home to be filed with State Vital Statistics. The funeral home will issue you as many copies as you request and pay for. Copies may also be obtained from the County or State Dept. of Vital Statistics.
Approval for release is required by the Coroner's Office for tissue/ organ donation in deaths that fall under Coroner Statutes. Only heart valves, skin, long bones, and corneas can be donated after death. Persons on life support may be eligible for organ donation. A donation will be evaluated on a case by case basis.
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Normally, no. However, there are exceptions and you will receive written correspondence when, and if, they apply.
In order to enter, you need to obtain permission from the Law Enforcement agency involved.
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Two years ago, the economy was seriously dragged down amidst an amazing banking crisis that spread throughout the world. The illusion created by loose credit — that housing could go up in price forever and we could enjoy permanent prosperity due to monetary expansion — was shattered by events. Reality had dawned. We found ourselves in the midst of an economic depression.
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At that point in policy, we were at a fork in the road. The wise direction was to let the depression happen. Let the bad investments wash out of the system. Let housing prices fall. Let banks go broke. Let wages fall and permit the market to reallocate all resources from bubble projects to projects that make economic sense. That was the direction chosen by the Reagan administration in 1981, and by the Harding administration in 1921. The result in both cases was a short downturn followed by recovery.
The Bush administration, in a policy later followed by the Obama administration, instead attempted a tactic of dream incubation as portrayed in the recent film Inception. The idea was to inject artificial stimulus into the macroeconomic environment. There were random spending programs, massive buyouts of bad debt using phony money, gargantuan tax tricks, incentive programs for throwing good money after bad, and hiring strategies to weave illusions about how all is well.
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In the movie, the goal of the dream incubation was to implant an idea into an unsuspecting subject's head that would cause him to act differently than he otherwise would have. In the real life version of inception, the state tried to implant in all our heads the idea that there was no depression, no economic collapse, no housing crisis, no push back on real estate prices, and really no serious problem at all that the state cannot fix provided we are obedient subjects and do what we are told.
In the movie version, the attempted inception is on a time clock. The dream weavers can only keep the subject in a state of slumber so long. In the real life version, things are much messier. The headlines have spoken about the impending recovery every day for all this time, and yet the evidence has never really been there. All the stimulus really did was forestall events a bit longer, but it hasn't prevented them.
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Now, with the stock markets melting and the near-universal consensus that we are back in recession, everyone is awake. It is pretty clear that the inception did not take. The unemployment data look absolutely terrible. As the Wall Street Journal points out, only 59% of men age 20 and over have a full-time job (in the 1950s, that figure was 85%). Only 61% of all people over 20 have any kind of job now.
That's only the most conspicuous problem. No one really knows just how much further the real estate market would fall under market-clearing conditions. The actual status of the car industry is anyone's guess. Business borrowing is going nowhere. Total industrial and commercial loans are actually at their lowest point of the whole depression. Payrolls generally are still sweeping downwards.
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With an economy like ours, and a population to support with its long-held expectations of material investment, an environment like this can produce despair. People are talking about the death of the American dream, perhaps even the collapse of the American empire along the lines of Rome in days of old. Evidence is emerging by the day, as municipalities shut down street lamps and cut back on the hours at public schools. Governments that do not have access to the printing press are curbing everything.
Meanwhile, the state, as if it is trying to keep us hooked up to its failed machine, has its central bank trying to pump in more money and credit, with interest rates nearly zero. No matter how much this tactic has failed, our money masters still can't seem to face the fact that it is not working. There are very few takers these days for the phony-money loans. There is a widespread perception that inflation is on a hair trigger, so that if the expansion campaign ever really does stick, we could find ourselves in a ghastly disaster of hyperinflation.
The only really good trends exist in two worlds right now. In the digital world, we see growth and expansion and progress. This sector is not as heavily hooked up to manipulations of the Keynesian elite, and its development has proceeded at a clip even in a depression.
The other sector that shows great improvement is the intellectual sector. The Austrian School of economics is sweeping away Keynesian fallacies. The Keynesians took on this depression and they have lost the battle. That much is obvious to everyone but the most dedicated New York Times economics columnist. For anyone with an open mind, the economics of the Austrian School has become the prevailing mode of thinking for our time.
I wish Murray Rothbard were around to see this. Ludwig von Mises, F.A. Hayek, and Henry Hazlitt, too. Their ideas on economics were forged against great resistance of the mainstream. Today, they are becoming the new mainstream among anyone who is not engaged in lucid dreaming of prosperity, made possible by the printing press.


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Most Bible-Minded City Is Knoxville, Tenn., Says ABS
Knoxville, Tenn., known for being the home of Dolly Parton and the Tennessee Valley Authority, was named number one on the American Bible Society's "Most Bible-Minded Cities" list.
With research conducted by the Barna Group, the ABS' recently released findings were based off of seven years' worth of telephone and online interviews with a random sample space of 42,855 adults. After Knoxville, the other nine cities on the top ten list in descending order are: Shreveport, La.; Chattanooga, Tenn.; Birmingham, Ala.; Jackson, Miss.; Springfield, Mo.; Charlotte, N.C.; Roanoke and Lynchburg, Va. sharing the number 8 spot; Huntsville, Ala.; and Charleston, W. Va. at number 10.
Geoffrey Morin, chief communications officer at American Bible Society, told The Christian Post that the top cities were "those whose residents have the highest combined levels of regular Bible reading and belief in the Bible's accuracy."
Morin said that while Barna and ABS "are continuously evaluating interaction with and views of the Bible among Americans" the list "is the first time we have dove down this deep looking specifically at individual cities across America."
Dr. Chris Stephens, senior pastor of the multisite Faith Promise Church, told CP that learning about his city being at the top of the list was "absolutely awesome." "There are a lot of good churches in Knoxville, Tennessee and there are some great coalitions of churches that work together to help the poor, help the under-resourced," said Stephens.
"Our churches work together. We are in together to complete each other not to compete with each other."
Stephens also shared about Faith Promise's extensive efforts to reach out and preach the Bible to the many neighborhoods in the Knoxville area. "We have about 300 adult group Bible studies that are all over the Knoxville area…we invite the neighbors to come and to study the Bible with us," said Stephens.
"We have outreaches into the inner city and into the ethnic groups. We've really tried to take the word all over the city."
While the ABS report noted the "Most Bible-Minded Cities," it also listed the top ten "Least Bible-Minded Cities" as well. Providence, R.I. and New Bedford, Mass. shared the number one spot; followed in descending order by Albany, N.Y.; Burlington, Vt.; Portland, Maine; Hartford and New Haven, Conn. at number 5; Boston, Mass.; San Francisco, Calif.; Phoenix, Ariz.; Cedar Rapids, Iowa; and Buffalo, N.Y. at number 10.
When asked by CP if there was any official award handed out for good placement on the list, Morin of ABS responded that the cities listed would not get anything tangible per se. "No official award is given, but I did receive a call from the office of the mayor in Knoxville who was interested to learn that Knoxville scored highest in Bible-mindedness," said Morin.
"I have yet to get a call from mayors of cities closer to the bottom of the list, but I'd think we'd have plenty to talk about."


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COLUMBUS, Ohio — Columbus coach John Tortorella hates the kind of music his players often blare in the dressing room. Still, he really wanted them to be able to hear it again.
After the first three games of the playoff series with Pittsburgh, the Blue Jackets players shed their gear in a room that was nearly silent. That's the way it happens after a loss.
Before Tuesday's 5-4 win over the Penguins, Tortorella said he wanted the young team to experience a playoff victory, lousy music and all.
"I wanted them — some guys with limited playoff experience, some of them with none — just to try to enjoy a win," Tortorella said. "Now we'll figure out how to go about our business and try to manage the series here."
Markus Nutivaara, William Karlsson and Boone Jenner each had a goal and an assist, and the Blue Jackets held on to beat the Penguins and avoid a sweep in the best-of-seven playoff series. Nutivaara, a rookie, was making his playoff debut.
Jack Johnson and Josh Anderson also scored for the Blue Jackets, who were able to outlast the Penguins when they pushed back hard in the second and third periods and then got a short-handed goal from Jake Guenztel with 27 seconds left in the game.
"That's a good team — they can sense the blood in the water," Tortorella said. "But we got through it."
Sergei Bobrovsky had 27 saves to help the Blue Jackets get their first playoff win in three years and their first-ever in regulation.
The Penguins now lead 3-1 in the best-of-seven series, which returns to Pittsburgh for Game 5 on Thursday night.
Patric Hornqvist, Ron Hainsey and Tom Kuhnhackl also scored for Pittsburgh, and Marc-Andre Fleury — pressed into service because of an injury to Matt Murray at the start of the series — had 29 saves.
Columbus got offence from its lower lines, building leads of 3-1, 4-2 and 4-3 before Jenner poked in a goal amid heavy traffic 5:37 into the third period for a 5-3 lead. Pittsburgh got the late goal but ran out of time.
"You earn your bounces, and they were better" Penguins star forward Sidney Crosby said. "They earned the win, and we didn't have the desperation that we needed to win the game."
Johnson scored first for the Blue Jackets at 11:46 of the opening period when he launched a wrister from the right point into traffic that bounced off Crosby's skate and into the net.
There was less luck involved when Anderson made it 2-0 with a little over minute left in the period. He grabbed a chip pass from Karlsson, circled in from the right and beat Fleury between the pads.
Columbus went up 3-0 at 4:49 of the second when Nutivaara scored off a rebound.
Just like in Game 3 when they rallied from a 3-1 deficit, the Penguins began roaring back.
Hornqvist struck for Pittsburgh during a power play 6:43 in the second. His rebound shot from the doorstep rolled up the pad of Bobrovsky with the goalie dropped in front of the net. Ten minutes later, Phil Kessel passed the puck out to Hainsey to the far right and he beat a shielded Bobrovsky from a severe angle. The Blue Jackets were lucky to get out of the last few minutes of the period without another score from the swarming Penguins.
The Blue Jackets got a goal from Karlsson 27 seconds into the third that seemed to pump them up again. But Kuhnhackl found the back of the net on a rebound less than two minutes later to make it 4-3 before Jenner put Columbus back up by two.
"We're all excited here tonight," Columbus winger Brandon Saad said. "But we've got a lot more work to do."
NOTES: Tortorella scratched veteran winger Scott Hartnell on his 35th birthday, replacing him in the lineup with Lukas Sedlak, who returned from an injury. ... F Matt Calvert also was back after serving a one-game suspension for breaking his stick over the back of Kuhnhackl on Friday. .... D Kyle Quincey made his playoff debut for Columbus after D Zach Werenski was knocked out with a puck to the face Sunday. D Scott Harrington was a scratch.
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I'd like to make espressos for lattes in my offices. However we don't have a stove or coffee maker -- just a kettle and a microwave, and that's about it.
Is it possible to make a decent espresso with just these appliances?
I'd like to make espressos for lattes in my offices. However we don't have a stove or coffee maker -- just a kettle and a microwave, and that's about it.
Is it possible to make a decent espresso with just these appliances?
You can get quite close, actually:
Aeropress will give you a decent coffee extraction. Warm up the milk in the microwave, and use a frother like this one made by Bialetti to achieve a really thick and smooth latte foam.
Your other option (as SAJ14SAJ suggests) is an electric Moka maker. I've seen this Bialetti Electric Moka make a decent espresso and last a long time (if instructions are followed). Many Italian households don't own an espresso machine and simply go with a moka maker. Bialetti is very often the moka of choice.
Great espresso requires these things:
You can solve #1 and #2 by buying your coffee already ground. I would suggest you start with Illy espresso or find a local reputable roaster. I would stay with Illy until you feel comfortable with the other variables.
You can solve #3 with your current equipment, but you may want a thermometer. You can boil the water, then let it sit for a few minutes and you should be ok.
Regarding #4, that is where you are missing the proper equipment. This is where I would suggest an AeroPress or MyPressi. They have been recommended strongly a number of times.
Aeropress: http://aerobie.com/products/aeropress.htm
MyPressi: http://mypressi.com
My suggestion is a "starter" suggestion. You are going to find it difficult to make great espresso when you have so many variables to manage yourself. With the above setup, I believe you can make good espresso and that may be good enough. We have an Rancilio espresso maker at our office and about 10% of the people use it properly. The rest of the people do not make a great espresso, but they make "good enough" and they are happy with it.
If you want espresso, as officially defined, the Aeropress above won't get you there. This will get you close to it, with the resources you have, plus a minor purchase. If you like it, then it doesn't matter what it is called.
True espresso requires special equipment to generate steam and use its pressure to force water through coffee grounds. If you are asking, can you produce espresso strictly with the equipment you already enumerated, the answer is no.
Still, short of buying a full espresso maker for your office, there may be an option:
Since you have a kettle at your office, you must have a heat source of some type, unless you meant an electric kettle. Even if you only have an electric kettle, now, you could always buy a small electric hot plate.
This will let you operate a moka pot, which produces coffee more similar to espresso than standard coffee pots as it generates some steam pressure internally (although not as much as an espresso machine):
Evidently, electric moka pots are also available (such as this one), which might be suitable for your office and would not require a separate heat source, although I cannot speak to their quality or reliability.
Of course, depending on what you mean by latte, you may also require steamed milk, which I am not sure how you would generate without an espresso machine.
Assuming, like most of the answers so far, that you want something that is tasty and espresso-like with a minimal investment (e.g., doesn't need to be strictly espresso/latte, or only with what you have), you might consider a "Vietnamese style coffee filter". It's a little metal thing that sits on top of your cup; you put the coffee in, compress it into a puck, and add water. It produces something a bit like if you used a Moka, with the bonus that you don't need a stove (e.g., if you meant that you have an electric kettle) and they are usually cheaper (~ $5).
Or you could use a French press - not espresso at all, but also cheap and easy.
Sort of between @talon8 and @sleeves on the grounds. I wouldn't buy 'factory-ground' coffee, but if you buy decent beans reasonably often and grind them at the store (or at home), that works out pretty well - and might be preferable to bringing a grinder to work.
The point of espresso is that it needs pressure. This is why the different kinds of espresso machines exist - their core functionality is creating this pressure.
If you are willing to extend the equipment in your office kitchen, you can create not-quite-espresso fairly cheaply. A portable hob and a Bialetti-style mokka pot together should cost around 50 Euro ($70), maybe more depending on pot size and quality -- a reasonable cost if multiple colleagues chip in.
An alternative is to explore coffee options beside lattes. Lattes may be popular at coffee shops which have the proper equipment, but different drinks may be a better solution for your office. You should be able to make cappuccino with drip coffee, and with a portable single-plate stove you can make Turkish coffee and all its derivatives. I have actually boiled coffee in milk instead of water, sticking to the Turkish method in every other detail, and found the result surprisingly good. If you are looking at such hobs, be aware that while induction is convenient (heats up much faster than alternatives), the units on the market often come with a safety feature that prevents you from heating anything with a diameter less than 12 cm, which will rule out moka pots and ibriqs.
Piamo - a German company - is making a microwaveable espresso machine. It doesn't appear the device is yet for sale.
I'm an italian coffee addicted, the best way to prapare an Espresso at office/home (often better than the one prepared in many italian bar...) is using this device: http://www.bialetti.it/it/catalogue/scheda.asp?id_cat=399
I've been using it (in some different evolution release...) more than ten years with great results. Use a good coffee brand (Illy is perfect...) for great success.


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AOL has just acquired Rally Up, the Santa Cruz-based mobile application company, we've learned. The 9-person team will become a part of AOL's mobile group reporting to David Temkin, the new head of mobile. No word on the price, but we hear it was less than $10 million.
The company made a mobile location app (also called Rally Up) which we first covered back in December of 2009 when it launched as "Rally" — a location-based social network for your real friends. They were also among the first to bring a location social network to the iPad. But more recently, the team had built a pretty cool app called FacePlant — which allowed you to easily see who you could use your iPhone 4 to FaceTime with. Apple's current functionality for this is very limited — you basically have to guess that someone has both an iPhone 4 and is on WiFi to use it. FacePlant got around that with a slick app — but Apple has yet to approved it.
Some may recall that a good portion of the team behind Rally Up is the same team that made 12seconds, one of the initial "Twitter for Video" services. The remainder of that team is separate though, and will continue on for now, I'm told. But Sol Lipman, co-founder of both will be moving over to AOL.
Update: I just got off the phone with Lipman who confirms both the acquisition and that he'll be joining AOL as a new Senior Director of Mobile. He confirms that all 9 people will be moving over the AOL working out of the new Palo Alto office. Lipman says that the team under him will continue to work on both location and mobile applications, noting that AOL was "looking to take our scrappy energy."
Lipman also confirms that 12seconds will continue to live on. He says that aside from some employees, there was no overlap and that it takes minimal efforts to keep the service running — and that it's already paying for itself thanks to their video contests.
As for FacePlant, Lipman says they're still focused on it and will continue to work on it at AOL (they bought that app as well alongside the purchase). As to why Apple hasn't accepted it, Lipman says: "I think we struck a nerve with Apple. Internally, some people really liked it — some others had issues with it." He notes they're going to make some tweaks that Apple suggested and submit it again.
The Rally Up team will begin their new jobs at AOL on September 7.
Update 2: Here's the full release from AOL:
Team to Support AOL's Efforts to Bring "Mobile-first" Apps to Market
MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA – Aug. 31, 2010 – AOL Inc. (NYSE: AOL) today announced that Rally Up, the team who has been behind the popular Rally Up and FacePlant mobile applications, has joined AOL to further enhance the Consumer Applications and Mobile talent under Brad Garlinghouse and David Temkin's leadership. The team will be based in AOL's new West Coast office in Palo Alto and work closely with David Temkin, the Vice President of Mobile at AOL, to build mobile-first experiences.
Mobile-first marks a new approach to the mobile market at AOL. For the first time, AOL mobile applications will consist not only of mobile versions of its popular desktop and web offerings, but also will include all-new products that launch first on mobile devices. The infusion of mobile product development talent provided by the Rally Up team will provide AOL with an additional spark to ignite its mobile-first initiatives.
"Within the last year, the Rally Up team has demonstrated its keen understanding of the way that people want to use their mobile devices to interact, share and better communicate and of the tools necessary to address those needs," said David Temkin. "We are thrilled to have such a talented group of mobile innovators join AOL, especially given the rapid evolution of this space."
Rally Up was founded in 2009 by a team of Santa Cruz, California based entrepreneurs and developers with the goal of providing consumers with best in class mobile applications. The Rally Up team has built two applications to date including Rally Up and FacePlant:
- Rally Up, a Location Based Service that enabled users to combine private microblogging with location, allowing users to share text, photos and direct message each other
- FacePlant, an application currently under review, that would enable users to see which of their friends are available to chat on the FaceTime application available on the iPhone 4
"We are excited to join the AOL team for the opportunity to work with great leaders like Brad and David and because we are impressed with AOL's drive to innovate on mobile devices," said Sol Lipman, CEO of Rally Up.
Additional information about AOL's mobile offerings can be found at mobile.aol.com.


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I am almost ready! :)
It has been a day full of baking pies,
setting the table and preparing in advance some
the food for our Holiday dinner.
It has been a little crazy around here, but, I am happy to announce, our "sailor" is home!!!
We picked him up at the airport at 1:00 am this morning and we were back up at five
trying to get everything together.
Before my cooking marathon starts tomorrow, I wanted to share with you all our Thanksgiving table.
This year, our son won't be able to be home for Christmas, so we went all out for Thanksgiving
to make it as special as possible for him.
We will also have my BIL and his family joining us, which we don't get to do often,
so we are hoping for a very special day, full of family gathering and good food.
And here is our Thanksgiving table.
I bought the Lenox tablecloth at Ross.
It was a super deal for $19.99.
Original price $75.00.
Isn't it pretty?
The china is super special to us.
It was my husband's grandfather wedding china and when he passed away, my Father-in-law gave it to me.
He told me then he knew I would take good care of it and enjoy using it for our family dinners.
It means more than ever to me now, since he also passed away last year.
I paired it with our crystal d' Arques with gold rim.
At the last minute, I also made table place cards and displayed them on pinecones.
From our family to yours, we just want to wish you all a very, very HAPPY THANKSGIVING!
Enjoy your Holiday weekend!


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Black truck outside that's E's
And it sits on twenty-threes (tell 'em)
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Makin beats is my expertise
He can't do it again, best believe
I pull a rabbit out my hat and my sleeve
Now, take my picture, cheese
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My face shown on mad TV's
When I come fans warm and transform like bees
Hmmm, been rappin before CD's
I'm so cold, everything around freeze (brr!)
Go ahead, talk about me please
You can stop me here, but I'm big overseas [Chorus: Erick Sermon] This here's something so ill
Something for the ear so chill
Ill this cause this so real
I rock spots from 12 until
Dig it – I flow this (with ease)
Dub – I shows this (with ease)
Kid – I rock this (with ease)
Yeah – I does this (with ease) [Erick Sermon] Here's somethin that's rarely seen
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I'm so fresh so clean
Three-wheel motion, car on lean
In D.C., parked outside Dream
In A-T-L, parked outside Cream
Stepped back and checked the scene
Dirty girls up in here, but not Justine
This here flow's in my genes
Pockets, dough in my jeans
Some jewelry, watch might gleam
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This here ends bar 16
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